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No it isn't about koolaid, it is about technology. Consul, Vagrant, and Vault are all excellent Hashicorp technologies I've used. They are great, and some of th
by SEJeff 11y ago
No it isn't about koolaid, it is about technology. Consul, Vagrant, and Vault are all excellent Hashicorp technologies I've used. They are great, and some of the best in the industry for their problem spaces.
You've got Mesos scaling to 10,000+ physical node clusters today in production at the likes of companies like Apple and Twitter. You've got Kubernetes being adopted and developed by pretty much all of the open source heavyweights and it came from the experienced Google developed building... Google. Kubernetes ontop of Mesos is basically the holy grail in my personal opinion where you get the best Ops (mesos) story mixed with the best Dev (k8s) story. I guess we'll see how much Nomad takes off :)
Hashicorp isn't a huge company, it seems like to me their best bet is keeping the focus relatively small so they can be the best at what they do. Even if Nomad is a huge hit and is amazing, it still seems kind of sad that they couldn't simply double down and help out with kubernetes. I do find it ironic that they talk about how nomad is for microservices and then make a dig at the several microservices that k8s is made up of.
- Rapzid 11y agoI'm sort of surprised to hear this view of the situation which is about the complete opposite of what I've had for the past few years. I have felt it's a shame that hashicorp have created consul, vault, a new raft implementation (which they got tons of flack for then etcd made THEIR OWN re-write which fixed a tons of issues this year..), serf, etc., and nobody has adopted or built on them. K8's current secrets solution is a bit underwhelming TBH, as an example. Kubernetes has support for 250 node clusters in their list of blockers: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/roadmap.md#blocking-features https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/ro...